Famous birthdays in August

Félix Auger-Aliassime

August 8 Athlete 632,837 visits

Félix Auger-Aliassime (French pronunciation: [feliks oʒe aljasim]; born August 8, 2000), sometimes referred to as FAA, is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 4 in singles achieved on 8 June 2026, and has been ranked No. 60 in doubles achieved i…

Dustin Hoffman

August 8 Actor 463,016 visits

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Among his numerous accolades are two Academy A…

A'ja Wilson

August 8 Athlete 334,053 visits

A'ja Riyadh Wilson ( AY-zhə; born August 8, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Wilson is regarded by many as the best female basketball player of her generation, and is widely considere…

Ryan Garcia

August 8 Athlete 333,596 visits

Ryan Garcia (born August 8, 1998) is an American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title since 2026. He previously held the WBC interim lightweight title in 2021.

Alysa Liu

August 8 Athlete 331,615 visits

Alysa Liu ( ə-LISS-ə LEE-oo; born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix meda…

John Holmes

August 8 Actor 170,257 visits

John Curtis Holmes (né Estes; August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988), better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character he portrayed in a series of related films), was an American pornographic film actor. Holmes ranks among the most famous and prolific adult film …

Princess Beatrice

August 8 Other 166,701 visits

Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988), is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession t…

Nigel Mansell

August 8 Athlete 103,522 visits

Nigel Ernest James Mansell (; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racin…

Roger Penrose

August 8 Scientist 97,647 visits

Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John'…

JC Chasez

August 8 Musician 92,397 visits

Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez (; born August 8, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He started his career as a singer, actor, and dancer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club before rising to prominence as a member of the boy band NSYNC in the late …

The Edge

August 8 Musician 89,197 visits

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), known by his stage name the Edge or simply Edge, is an Irish and British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band U2. A member of the group since its incep…

Rory Calhoun

August 8 Actor 81,502 visits

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s and appeared in supporting roles in films such as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Motel Hell (1980).

Paul Dirac

August 8 Scientist 74,534 visits

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (, dih-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, coining the former t…

Chris Eubank

August 8 Athlete 65,173 visits

Christopher Livingstone Eubank (also Christopher Livingstone Eubank Sr. born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight title from 1990 to 1991. He also held the (WBO) super-middle…

Donald P. Bellisario

August 8 Other 61,879 visits

Donald Paul Bellisario (born August 8, 1935) is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982–1983), Airwolf (1984–1987), Quantum Leap (1989–1993), JAG (1995–2005), and NC…

Joely Collins

August 8 Actress 57,716 visits

Joely Collins (née Bertorelli; born August 8, 1972) is a Canadian-born film and television producer, writer and actress. She is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli and English musician Phil Collins.

Dino De Laurentiis

August 8 Actor 55,995 visits

Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (Italian: [ˈdiːno de lauˈrɛnti.is]; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian and American film producer and businessman. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film production; alongside Carlo Ponti, …

William Asher

August 8 Other 55,044 visits

William Milton Asher (August 8, 1921 – July 16, 2012) was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher int…

Richard Anderson

August 8 Actor 52,383 visits

Richard Norman Anderson (August 8, 1926 – August 31, 2017) was an American film and television actor. One of his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) in both The Six Million Dollar Man and Th…

Lindsay Sloane

August 8 Actress 45,782 visits

Lindsay Sloane Leikin-Rollins (born August 8, 1977) is an American actress. She is known for playing Valerie Birkhead on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997–99) and Emily in The Odd Couple (2015–17). She has also starred in films such as Bring It On (2000), Over Her Dead Body (2008),…

Guy Burnet

August 8 Actor 45,146 visits

Guy Burnet is a British actor who has worked in film, television, and theatre. He had a notable supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Deborah Norville

August 8 Other 44,573 visits

Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is a former anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she held from March 6, 1995 to May 21, 2025. She markets and sells a line of yarns …

Alija Izetbegović

August 8 Politician 40,482 visits

Alija Izetbegović (8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosopher and author who served as the president of the presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996. He later served as the first chairman of the presidency of Bosni…

Ernest Lawrence

August 8 Scientist 37,858 visits

Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the L…

Manjul Bhargava

August 8 Scientist 33,112 visits

Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Robert Gunning-Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds Adjunct Professorships…

Ken Dryden

August 8 Athlete 32,184 visits

Kenneth Wayne Dryden (August 8, 1947 – September 5, 2025) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, politician, lawyer, businessman and author. He played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1971 to 1979, winning the Stanley Cup six times, …

Shayna Baszler

August 8 Athlete 30,132 visits

Shayna Andrea Baszler ( BAYZ-ler; born August 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and a former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. She performs on the independent circuit. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she became a two-time and longest combined-reigning…

Giuseppe Conte

August 8 Politician 29,744 visits

Giuseppe Conte (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppi ˈkonte]; born 8 August 1964) is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021. Conte …

Marcelo Balboa

August 8 Athlete 29,420 visits

Marcelo Balboa (born August 8, 1967) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender in the 1990s for the United States national team, becoming its captain. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. After retiring from playing, he has worked as…

Martin Brest

August 8 Other 28,660 visits

Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. He then directed…

Mel Tillis

August 8 Musician 27,639 visits

Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long list of Top 10 hits. Tilli…

Yandy Díaz

August 8 Athlete 25,637 visits

Yandy Díaz Fernández (born August 8, 1991) is a Cuban-born professional baseball first baseman, third baseman and designated hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Indians. Díaz has won one Silver Slugger Aw…

S.Coups

August 8 Musician 25,026 visits

Choi Seung-cheol (Korean: 최승철; born 8 August 1995), known professionally by his stage name S.Coups (에스쿱스), is a South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team, and in 2025 …

Cameron Payne

August 8 Athlete 23,958 visits

Cameron Payne (born August 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Murray State and was selected 14th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder in t…

Kool Moe Dee

August 8 Actor 19,703 visits

Mohandas Dewese (born August 8, 1962), better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Considered one of the forerunners of the New Jack Swing sound in hip hop, he gained fame in the 1980s as a member of one of the pioneering groups in h…

Nelson A. Miles

August 8 Other 19,358 visits

Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the last stages of the American Indian Wars (1840–1890), and the Spanish–American War (1898). From 1895 to 1903, Miles served as the last Comma…

Rosetta LeNoire

August 8 Actress 18,367 visits

Rosetta LeNoire (born Rosetta Olive Burton; August 8, 1911 – March 17, 2002) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was known to contemporary audiences for her work in television. She had regular roles on such series as Gimme a Break! (starting in S4E17 of the s…

Vladimír Darida

August 8 Athlete 18,168 visits

Vladimír Darida (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvlaɟɪmiːr ˈdarɪda]; born 8 August 1990) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Czech First League club Hradec Králové.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

August 8 Other 18,129 visits

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and …

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist

August 8 Other 17,823 visits

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (8 August 1881 – 13 November 1954) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during…